Maximum lenght of an input field in a panel

leo_viky · New User Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 9

Hi all,

Could someone tell if it is possible to have all 80 characters of a line in a panel as input filed...im asking this because the first byte gets allocated to the attribute byte.....is there some method to override it...ive heard of shadow bytes...but nothin more..

ofer71 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:24 pm

Who says panel width is 80 character? Try to use a 130-characters library and see....

O.

leo_viky · New User Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 9

When im trying to execute the following ISPF Panel code in a PDS having rec length 80 it works fine but as per your suggestion ive tried the same code with rec length 100 i get the following error message

Panel 'ATST' error
Panel not found.

ISPF Panel Definition

)ATTR
? TYPE(INPUT) INTENS(HIGH)
)BODY
?LINE1
?LINE2
?LINE3
)END

Application Code

ADDPOP
DISPLAY PANEL(ATST)
REMPOP

Is this a limitation or am i not doing it properly...please direct me..thanks

ofer71 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:54 pm

The fina manual says that panel width can be 80-160 wide.

Anyway, your problem looks like the panel library wasn't allocated to ISPPLIB.

O.

leo_viky · New User Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 9

nope ive properly allocated the panel library to ISPPLIB,and iive read the fine manual,but im repeatedly getting the same error....but if i move the same panel code to a pds with rec length 80 and allocate it to ISPPLIB it works fine..of course with the first byte used up for the attribute byte...how do i overcome this..
basically my requirement is this....Im trying to display a panel (24x80) with all the lines as input fields..like a free text editor...infact i wasnt able to expand the window to 24x80 since i was gettin error msgs regarding width exceeding screen width etc...but ive overcome this with the RESIZE command but nw im stuck with this prob..pls help me out..